 ... 14. But, when there are two sacred texts, apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcilable ; 15. Thus in the Veda are these texts : " let the sacrifice be when the sun has arisen...  Works - Page 107by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1796 - 442 pages
...But, when there are two facred texts, ap-t c parcntly inconfijlent, both are held to be law ; fo»; ' both are pronounced by the wife to be valid, ' and...has arifen," and, " before it has rifen," and, "when nehherfun ' nor ftars can be feen :" the facrifice, therefore, ' may be performed at any or all of... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 700 pages
...subsect. 34. J Laws of Menu, ch. ix. 214. $ " When there are two sacred texts, apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law, for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcileable. Thus in the Veda are these texts : Let the sacrifice be when the... | |
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1825 - 490 pages
...authority is divine revelation ; 14. ' But, when there are two sacred texts, appa' rently inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both ' are pronounced by the wise to be valid and recon' cilable ; 15. < Thus in the Feda fire these texts: " let the " sacrifice... | |
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Brahmans - 1825 - 488 pages
...authority is divine revelation ; 14. ' But, when there are two sacred texts, appa' rentty inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both ' are pronounced by the wise to be valid and recon' cilable ; 15. ' Thus in the Feda are these texts: " let the " sacrifice... | |
 | Robert Rickards - India - 1829 - 682 pages
...inconsistencies or opposite enactments : " When " there are two sacred texts, apparently inconsistent, both are " held to be law; for both are pronounced by the wise to be " valid and reconcileable. Thus in the Veda are these texts ; " Let the sacrifice be when... | |
 | William Hook Morley - 1850 - 1080 pages
...order to fulfil the precept of Menu — " When there are two sacred texts apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law, for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcileable.1 The following account of the Digests might perhaps have included... | |
 | Jagannát'ha Tercapanchánana - Contracts - 1864 - 510 pages
...fulfil the precept of their great lawgiver, " When there are " two sacred texts apparently inconsistent, both are held " to be law ; for both are pronounced by the Wise to be " valid and reconcileable."f From various digests, and from commentaries on the institutes... | |
 | Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1867 - 1246 pages
...to reject any of them, for MANU enjoins : " when there are two sacred texts apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcilable." Under such circumstances a reconciliation of the contradictions... | |
 | Manu, Graves Champney Haughton - Hindu law - 1869 - 366 pages
...authority is divine revelation ; 14. But, when there are two sacred texts, apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcilable ; 15. Thus in the Veda are these texts : " let the sacrifice be when... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke - Hinduism - 1873 - 578 pages
...fulfil the precept of their great lawgiver ; " When there are two sacred "texts apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law; for "both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcile"able."2 From various digests, and from commentaries on the institutes... | |
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